Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kitchen counter where the exterior will warm up faster than the interior, thus promoting bacterial growth. Novice cooks also make the mistake of slicing raw meat and chopping vegetables on the same cutting board, encouraging the transfer of contaminants from one food to another. Dr. Robert Tauxe, of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, points out another no- no: "Sometimes people will take chicken out to the barbecue in a big bowl. Then they will put the cooked chicken back in the same bowl." Thus bacteria from uncooked chicken wind up in the finished product...
...growth of huge regional discount stores -- despite all the convenience they provide -- has been devastating for many small downtowns, since one shopping center can draw customers away from a dozen or more communities. Says Robert Van Hook, executive director of the National Rural Health Association: "Wal-Marts are the last nails in the coffins of a lot of rural Main Streets." Because downtown retail shops are important employers, their decline can be fatal to the rest of the town's economy as well. Another major small-town employer, the local hospital, is disappearing at the rate of more than...
Rather than trying to re-create the web of regulations and subsidies that once supported rural America, federal policy should concentrate on helping rural areas compete in the new global economy. Economist Robert Reich of Harvard University believes that rural America must shift its dependence from production of low-value, high-volume products like grain and simple manufactured goods to high-tech manufacturing and services. To make that transition, business and government would have to pump more money into rural schools, hospitals, roads and other infrastructure. Says Van Hook: "We have to make some investments in rural America...
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